I'm hoping, sincerely hoping, that this mindset's momentum continues to pick up steam:
When a company defrauds its customers, or delivers shoddy goods, the customers sooner or later are going to take their business elsewhere. But if that company has a virtual monopoly, and offers something its customers must have, they may have no choice but to keep taking it.
That’s when the customers, en masse, need to raise a stink. That’s when someone else with the resources needs to seriously consider whether the time is ripe to compete.
The Associated Press is embroiled in a scandal. Conservative bloggers, the new media watchdogs, lifted a rock at the AP.
Curt at Floppingaces, www.floppingaces2.blogspot.com, led the charge. He thought there was something strange about an AP report, and took a second look at it, then a third look. He and others blew the lid off it. The AP is making up war crimes. But the resulting stink in the blogosphere has barely wrinkled a nose in the mainstream press.
Hopefully that will change and Crittenden's Boston Herald piece will lead the way. Something has to give.
Let there be no doubt that biased reporting by the likes of the Associated (with terrorists) Press, Reuters, CNN and others has led to civilian deaths and American casualties. You can play a part in confronting this kind of BS by writing letters to the editor, contacting local papers and letting them know you're sick of the biased reporting, the false leads, the leaks and the nefariousness of the press.
You can make the kind of noise that results in change. Play your part in the wider war on terror and join the forces of decency on the Information Front. Make your voice heard and, as Crittenden's column indicates, just say no to shoddy journalism.
Lives are at stake.
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